User:Nasirkhan/WikiProject Colours of Bangladesh

Preserve the national heritage and history of Bangladesh by collecting the historical photos of the Language Movement, Liberation war and along with this capture the photos of heritage, natural beauty and so on, all of these will be published in Wikipedia.

Project idea

We want to preserve national heritage and culture of Bangladesh in Wikipedia. Through this project we will capture photographs of different important places of Bangladesh, train the photographers to contribute to Wikipedia, ask people to participate and help us to achieve the goals. And along with this we will try our best to gather the historical photographs of those places. Taking the photographs is not the only goal of this project, we will collect the related information as well and enrich the Wikipedia. Along with this we ready to receive all type of photographs and related information which represents a positive Bangladesh.

We will call the topics as colours. The colours could be the historical places, national heritages, national prides like the language movement, liberation war, natural beauties and so on.

The situation is not like that the photographs and information of those places/events are not available at all. In some cases they are available but unfortunately those were not published under open license. As a result we can not use those in all the purposes we need. So here we will capture the photographs and collect the related information, and then all of these will be released under CC-BY-SA/GFDL license.

Project goals

The main goal of this project is to create an archive to preserve the national prides of Bangladesh. Through out this project we will create and update a series of articles related to Bangladesh. To achieve this goal we will set a few specific milestones. Usually we create an article and then ask for a good photograph, but here a reverse method will be applied. We will capture the photograph first, then search for its related information and prepare the related articles.

Project Components

The project activities are split into several components. Components will be completed one by one and few of them will be done side by side.

[These list will be updated and the progress will be added time to time.]

• Setup the base: Prepare a list of topics, sort the list based on the priority. We will deploy the project on area basis. So we will create two type of lists, one for the area based and another will be for the whole country.
• Outreach: Inform all about the project via all the online and printed news medias. Arrange several workshops on different regions of the country. Arrange meetup with the photographers and the existing Wikipedians. Arrange photo donation days to collect the photographs from the mass people.
• Enrollment: Every one is allowed to join the project. They can attend the workshops, where we will demonstrate our project idea, show how to contribute to Wikipedia and other related topics. At the same time all the documents will be available so that all the others can join in.
• Retention : There will be several appreciation and motivational components on the project. We will have a media partner, and we will announce all the progresses via the social and other news media. After completing each phase we will organize photo exhibition as well.

Project plan

Scope:

Scope and activities

• Create a complete list of historical places of Bangladesh
• Check if articles exists(both Bengali and English wiki) about these places
• Prepare a list of pages which requires images or a better image
• Identify the topics which requires new articles
• Sort the list based on the priority
• Engage with local photography communities, so that they can contribute good images
• Arrange several training sessions in different regions of the country for the photography communities
• Organize photo donation day, the event will be announced earlier and we will collect the images on topic basis
• Ensure the image quality via the standards exists in Wikimedia Commons (quality, valuable, featured image)
• Publish the news about this project on print and electronic news media, and social media sites as well. We will inform the updates and ask all to contribute image(recently captured or historical) and information related to the listed topics.
• Contact with some specific source to collect the historical photos. Ex. Liberation war museum, national museum, alive freedom fighters and other photographers.
• Create new contributor of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
• Spread the culture of contributing own work in open source licences
• Maintain a decent documentation of the project, so that other can use the similar approach to retain their culture and heritage.

Tools, technologies, and techniques

A new groups of volunteers will contribute to this project. Several types of outreach events will be organized to contact with the new contributors. We will arrange workshops, photowalks, online and offline photo donation, article improvement campaign and so on. We also have a plan to organize general monthly meetups to discuss out progress.

In this project we will encourage the contributors to use the photo assessment structure (Quality, featured images), so we will need to active experienced commons contributors. We are testing the commons upload tools and tools to import form flickrs and few others. If it requires we may develop suitable tools which fits with the requirement.

It is mentioned earlier that a new group of volunteers will join with us, to contribute to the Wikipedia and its sister projects. We are panning to give them some gifts like stickers, badges, and other different items. It will be helpful to encourage them and promote Wikipedia as well.

Intended impact:

Target audience

All the readers of the Wikipedia (primarily Bengali and English) are the target audience of this project.

Based on the primary research i found that Bengali Wikipedia do not have enough article related to the heritage/history of Bangladesh. We are going to create and update articles, so the reader of the Wikipedia will be benefited.

A group of volunteers are going to join the project. Our main focus will be on the photograph communities. But at the same time we will try to encourage others to join us as an editor of Wikipedia.

Fit with strategy

Increasing Reach: One of the main component of the project is outreach. We will try to reach people as much as possible. We will inform that there is a encyclopedia named Wikipedia, it is free for all and you can also contribute to the project. After the starting of the project more people will read Wikipedia and the number of editors will be increased.

Improving Quality: Our main goal of the project is to improve the quality of the existing articles and create a set of new articles as well. We will add new quality images to the related articles and replace the existing images where required. At the same time try to add some more information in the articles.

Increasing Participation: Through this project we will update/create a set of articles. The articles will be updated by adding new quality images and related information as well. To get the quality images we will engage the existing photographer communities. We will arrange training sessions and guide them to learn about Wikipedia and the way to contributing to Wikipedia. The design of the project is mostly focused on the new editors.

Sustainability

This grant will be used to complete the first phase (you might want to say it is pilot) of the project. Here the timespan is 6 months. But 6 month is not enough to cover all the places. But will cover all the historical places/ heritage sites. After the project timeline the Wikimedia Bangladesh chapter will help me to continue this project. In the extended period (after the 6month) i have a plan to include several topics in the task list. Like initiate the GLAM project using the same team, collect historical photographs form the individuals and so on.

Measures of success

The measure of success will be calculated by the number of total monuments/places covered trough the project.

But at the same time we will capture few other information so that we can do better in the next phases of the project. here is the list;

• Total number of uploded photographs
• Total number of participants
• Total number of new articles
• Total number of articles updated via this project

Background

We will create and update articles, add photos to all the related to the heritage/history of Bangladesh. There are a few specific reasons to start this project. From ancient period this region (subcontinent) was ruled by several group of people. Along with this different people came here to visit, to business, to conqueror, and to rule the region. To develop this region and for their own use they built several type of establishments. They represent different culture, religion and they are also built on different architectural methods.

The sad part is we (the local people, government including myself) are not much careful about these places. So as a result many of the establishments are distorted, modified and lost by this time and this number is increasing. Bangladesh is situated by the sea Bay ob Bengal, is plays a great role to attract the other countries to expand their business on the sea area. A huge number of establishments are located on the south part of the country. As we all know Bangladesh is one of those countries who are suffering most from the global warming. Every year we had to face a big number of natural disasters. It is an another reason of decreasing the number of historical establishments. It might be already delay but here the plan is to preserve all of these in all the way we can. Primarily we will create an archive in the Wikipedia and at the same time we try to build awareness about these national prides.

Future extension of the project

The project goal is big and on the phase one, we will cover a part of this. The rest of the parts will be covered via the next phases of the deployment. Beside covering the historical places we will make sure to create a complete structure which will be used on the next phases. The list of places for the phase one will be selected based on the community discussion.

First phase of the project will be completed by the individual and then the local chapter might help us to continue the next phases.

We will create such a project model so that other countries can use the same structure to preserve their heritage and culture. We are starting this as a project but there is opportunities to start as a program of the WMF.

Additional Information

A grant application has been submitted for this project, you can add your comments on that application too. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Colours_of_Bangladesh

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